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faitour

/ˈfeɪtə/

faitour noun: a charlatan or imposter, especially one pretending to be ill, or to tell fortunes.

Noun

faitour (plural faitours)

  1. (obsolete) A charlatan or imposter, especially one pretending to be ill, or to tell fortunes.
    • Allas sayd kynge Lot I am ashamed / for by my defaute ther is many a worshipful man slayne / for and we had ben to gyders there hadde ben none hooste vnder the heuen that had ben abel for to haue matched with vs / This fayter with his prophecye hath mocked me1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter X, in Le Morte Darthur, book II
    • Into new woes vnweeting I was cast, / By this false faytor[…].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of faitour

pluralfaitours
alternative formfaitor
alternative formfaytor
alternative formfayter

Origin of faitour

From Middle English faytour, from Anglo-Norman faitour (cognate with Old French faitor (“doer, maker”), from Latin factor, factōrem, from facere (“do, make”).

Questions about faitour

What does faitour mean?
Faitour means a charlatan or imposter, especially one pretending to be ill, or to tell fortunes.
What part of speech is faitour?
Faitour is a noun.
How do you pronounce faitour?
Faitour is pronounced /ˈfeɪtə/.
What is the plural of faitour?
The plural of faitour is faitours.

Words near faitour in the dictionary

  1. faithworthiness
  2. faithworthy
  3. faithy
  4. faitor
  5. faitors
  6. faitour
  7. faitours
  8. Faits
  9. faits accomplis
  10. Faivre
  11. Faivres

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